Thomas Aquinas Love Is Quotations

Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far as it recalls a beloved object to one's memory, and makes one feel one's love for the thing, whose absence gives us pain. Consequently, since love is pleasant, both pain and whatever else results from love, in so far as they remind us of our love, are pleasant.

Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.

Charity is love; not all love is charity.

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

To love is to will the good of the other.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.